MASTERY OF MIND OPENS AVENUES OF HOPE

 Change your attitude, look past yourself and deliver the care your child needs.  Remember it's not the caregiver who is sick and needs help it's the patient.  We have to move past anticipatory grief, spend time with our children that is where our healing lies in the time we spend with our children.  

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
   – The Buddha

"Our destiny is in our own hands. Since we are formed by our thoughts, it follows that what we become tomorrow is shaped by what we think today.

Happily, we can choose the way we think. We can choose our feelings, aspirations, desires, and the way we view our world and ourselves. Mastery of the mind opens avenues of hope. We can begin to reshape our life and character, rebuild relationships, thrive in the stress of daily living – we can become the kind of person we want to be." ~ Eknath Easwaran

"The door that locks you in, is also the door that lets you out."-Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

TAKE YOUR TIME

"Personal relationships, of course, not only take time, they take 'quality time.' This is especially true with children, where what matters is not only the number of hours we spend but also the attention we give, the love we show, the extent to which we enter into the child's world instead of dragging him or her into our own. Schedules are fine at the office, but children have a sense of time that is very different - and much more natural. They don't know about appointments and parking meters and living in the fast lane, and we cannot make them understand. All we can do is hurry them along.

"We adults can learn to slow down enough to enter their world; it's not their job to speed up and join ours. Where is the hurry?"

- Eknath Easwaran, from "Take Your Time"

 

SHIRA'S SCARY, GROSS AND REALLY FUN PLAY DATE WITH LIA OCTOBER 06, 2013

Shira Swinging In The Living Room

The Vestibular System is often overlooked in the over all care of patients with Spinal Muscular Atrophy.  Oral therapy, standing, swinging, laying on a massage mat, vibration etc all helps develop the vestibular system.  If you build your own swing make sure you secure the swing through a ceiling joist.  We purchased a single person hammock for $35.oo and use a tomato chair inside to support Shira along with a hensinger neck brace.

Shira's 8th Birthday Party Video

Shira's fantastic 8th birthday party!!!  We are so thankful to still have Shira with us.  We love you Shira!

Shira Horseback Riding March 20, 2013

Shira Riding at the Victoria Therapeutic Riding Association
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAid716I-CM

What Makes A Hero

Here is my latest article. Well an old article that has been published at http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/01/what-makes-a-hero-brad-fisher/ Please feel free to share it if you like it.